"Welcome and Farewell:" Thoughts From Our Executive Director Dara Kaufman
Our executive director Dara Kaufman on personnel changes at Federation and the end-of-the-year push to meet our annual campaign goal
Our executive director Dara Kaufman on personnel changes at Federation and the end-of-the-year push to meet our annual campaign goal
Our Coordinator of Volunteers and PJ Library, Susan Frisch Lehrer is retiring at the end of the year, and wishes all the people who have volunteered over the years a fond farewell and a hearty Todah Rabah!
In our Rabbi Reflection column, Rabbi Barbara Cohen of Congregation Ahavath Sholom in Great Barrington shares thoughts on how the difficult inner work to rediscover and reclaim parts of our exiled selves can be very restorative and well worth the effort
In September, the Jewish Women's Foundation of the Berkshires partnered with Meals of Hope and enlisted community volunteers to help pack 25,000 meal packages that were distributed to food pantries by the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts
The edicts of our sages, the world of our fathers, and the iconography of underground art meld in the images, sculpture, and Judaica of Steve Marcus, now on view at the Yiddish Book Center